by Thinkocrates

Created on: March 15, 2010   Last Updated: March 16, 2010

Religious Profiling

At the preparation of this paper, ‘a projected 6,801,504,370 people populated the earth’s surface, with 308,643,747 theoretically occupying the United States’ (U.S. Census Bureau).  ‘Based on a 2007 intelligence briefing of population to religion ratio, the Central Intelligence Agency reached the following:  33.32% subscribing to the Christian faith, Muslims making up 21.01%, Hindus apportioning 13.26%, Buddhism making up 5.84%, the Sikhs claiming .35%, Jews deriving of .23%, Bah’a made up of .12%, all other religions, creeds, philosophies partied to 11.78%, non-religious accounting for 11.77%, and atheistic believers claiming a 2.32%; all resulting in a 100% accountability (CIA).  Based on these percentages, 88.23% of the world believes in a higher power, or what Webster's New World College Dictionary defines as:

a) “Reverence for the gods, holiness, a system of religious beliefs, a belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be obeyed and worshiped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe; b) expression of such a belief in conduct and ritual; (2) a: any specific system of belief and worship, often involving a code of ethics and a philosophy; b) any system of beliefs, practices, ethical values, etc. resembling, suggestive of, or likened to such a system” (Webster 1134.)  Persons who ascribed to such were thought to be of good moral and ethical character - the cliché of good versus evil, yet all that would change after September 11, 2001.

She was a vision in a distance, a utopia of the mind described and found only in fairy tales until the voyages across the sea brought news of her existence. Hope of freedom filled the air across the ocean, as the 17th and 18th centuries brought forth a sense of search for religious freedom, escaping tyranny and oppression of faith based beliefs. America offered that hope.

Fast forward to the present, post-9/11 paranoia operating under the guise and creed of history, awakening to a startling revelation that we have taken a step backwards, for what our founding fathers dreamed and risked their lives for resulted in the following: “She was not an immigrant, yet instead a citizen of the United States of America who was on her way home to the state of Ohio.  On November 7, 2001, Ms. Kaukab while attempting to board her flight, set off no metal detectors, bells, or whistles. Yet, at the behest of a National Guardsman,

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